eFUSE

Motorola has come clean about the eFUSE questions, and we're all relieved to hear the Droid X won't blow up if you try to hack it. I can imagine that my questions were just a drop in the bucket and Moto had a stack of e-mail that they couldn't ignore. They reached out to Engadget with the following, saying (among other things):"The Droid X and a majority of Android consumer devices on the...

Locked, Encryption, and a self-destruct button -- all over a cellphone? It's not very often that I'm asked to write something and don't really want to write it. But there's this 800-pound gorilla in the room. Of course, I'm talking about the insane idea that a phone manufacturer would design a phone that self-destructs when you try to hack or mod it. If we're to believe what we read here at...